Word: regente
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...eyes of many Austrians are the Starhembergs. A few years ago Ernst Rüdiger Prince von Starhemberg, the dashing, amiable head of the House of Star-hemberg-whose ancestors helped save Austria from the Turks in 1693-was not only Vice-Chancellor of Austria but favored to become Regent. He had run out of money of his own to pay his immense private army, the Heimwehr, but was receiving more cash regularly from Premier Mussolini. Suddenly the Prince proceeded to make almost as much of a mess as did Edward VIII...
...Regent's Park Pond a middle-aged patriot was placidly rowing a boat when the silence began, tried to stand upright in his skiff and splashed overboard. Coming to the surface he stood waist-deep in muck and cold water, head bowed for 90 seconds before squishing ashore...
...16th birthday. Crown Prince Michael of Rumania was ceremoniously inducted into the Rumanian Army, of which he was titular commander-in-chief years ago when his father, buck-toothed King Carol II, was in exile. Witnesses of the ceremony were Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden and Prince Regent Paul of Yugoslavia. Among the gifts was a sleek Rolls-Royce sent by the Duke of Kent...
...Marshal Joseph Pilsudski there has been no picturesque, magnetic figure in Eastern Europe to compare with Hungary's Admiral Nicholas Horthy. He lives with quarterdeck simplicity in a small palace on the heights of Buda overlooking Pest, rules with the title of "His Serene Highness the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary," gives the most brilliant balls in Europe in the Habsburg Palace across the way from his own, but never sleeps on the premises of the King and Emperor who does not exist in fact, although by legitimate inheritance the throne belongs to Archduke or Kaiser Otto, exiled...
...ante). Admiral Horthy, with a fine patriotic eastern European sense of the comparative unimportance of Asia and the Americas, picturesquely suggested that the Asiatic League, the American League and the European League should each have its head office in Geneva. Adept at talking big themselves, Hungarians relished their Regent's grandiose project, improbable as a Hungarian opera...